Leighton Stepford Road, located in the centre of the former Leighton Zone, is a major through station for Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Stepford Victoria, Stepford Central, St Helens Bridge, Benton, Leighton City, Leighton West, Edgemead, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea and Stepford Express services to Stepford Central, Newry Harbour, Newry, Benton, Leighton City, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea. It is also an AirLink terminus for services from Stepford Airport Central and Airport Terminal 3. It is a semi-underground station, featuring 5 platforms, one of which is a bay platform.
This station is a replacement for the former station Winstree, which was demolished in The Big Update.
This station was upgraded in Version 1.8 along with the rest of the Leighton area. It is no longer the major station, but the station itself is still very large and AirLink services still terminate here.
Track & Platform Layout[]
-] Terminus
<< >> Passing Service Direction
Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use | Notes |
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-] | Terminating, AirLink services to Stepford Airport Central and Airport Terminal 3 | |
1 | ||
2 | Stepford Connect services to Leighton City, Leighton West, Edgemead, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea Stepford Express services to Leighton City, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea |
Trains will prioritise this platform first. |
>> | ||
>> | Trains will use this platform if Platform 2 is occupied. | |
3 | ||
4 | Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Stepford Victoria, Stepford Central, St Helens Bridge and Benton Stepford Express services to Stepford Central, Newry Harbour, Newry and Benton |
Trains from Leighton City Platform 3 & 4 will prioritise this platform. |
<< | ||
<< | Trains from Leighton City Platform 5 & 6 will prioritise this platform. | |
5 |
-] Terminus
<< >> Passing Service Direction
Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use | Notes |
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-] | ||
1 | ||
2 | Passing Stepford Connect services to Leighton West (from Leighton Depot) Passing Stepford Express services to Llyn-by-the-Sea |
This platform will be prioritised by trains first. |
>> | ||
>> | This platform will be used if Platform 2 is occupied. | |
3 | ||
4 | Passing Stepford Express services to Stepford Central | Trains from Leighton City Platform 3 & 4 will prioritise this platform. |
<< | ||
<< | Trains from Leighton City Platform 5 & 6 will prioritise this platform. | |
5 |
Services[]
Platform(s) | Previous station | Route | Next station |
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1 | Terminus | Stepford Airport Parkway | |
Stepford Airport Central | |||
2-3 | Rocket Parade | Leighton City | |
Water Newton | |||
Benton | |||
Morganstown | |||
4-5 | Leighton City | Rocket Parade | |
Water Newton | |||
Benton | |||
Morganstown | |||
Station Announcements[]
Platform
Stepford Connect
There are no Leighton Stepford Road announcements for Waterline
AirLink & Stepford Express
Trivia[]
- This station is based on Haymarket station in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- The static model for the Class 158 says ‘Stepford Road’ on the destination board, which is this station. However, Stepford Connect and Stepford Express services no longer terminate here and instead terminate at Leighton City as of V1.8.
- Before V1.8, on some occasions, when Platform 1 was already occupied by an AirLink or Stepford Express train, trains could terminate on Platform 2, and if both Platforms 1 and 2 were occupied, trains could terminate on Platform 3. This happened very rarely though.
- During V1.6 and V1.7, when some Eastbound Stepford Connect services still terminated here, they didn't use Platform 1. This was to allow trains from Stepford Central or Benton to terminate and continue onto R037 and R038 to Llyn-by-the-Sea and Westwyvern respectively.
- This station has the third longest station name in-game, with 22 characters, 2 characters shorter than the second longest station name, Cambridge Street Parkway.
- The longest station name is Stepford United Football Club when fully extended.
- Prior to V1.8, this station was once the only through station in the game in which trains could terminate on every platform.
- This was once the only station where trains on both directions could terminate on the same platform, with platforms having Stop Markers at both ends. This trait is now replaced by Leighton City and Edgemead.
- In V1.6, new signs without operator branding were added at this station, just saying the station name. The same could be seen at Elsemere Junction.
- Both of these signs were replaced with Stepford Express signage and AirLink signage respectively in V1.7.
- The destination on the trains used to display "Leighton Stepford Road" in The Big Update, then it was changed to just "Stepford Road" in V1.1 due to some trains not being able to fit the destination properly on the destination board, but in the Five Million Update, it was changed again to "Leighton Step Rd".
- As of V1.8, players can now walk from here to Leighton City. Before, they could walk from here to Rocket Parade.
- Before V1.8, this station resembled Manchester Oxford Road station in Manchester, England.
- Prior to V1.8, this station was an overground station.
- This is the first station to have through and terminating platforms shared by more than one operator.
- In the Five Million Update, AirLink was extended to this station to celebrate the game reaching 5 million visits.
- Currently, this station is one of the 6 triple-line junctions alongside Stepford Central, St Helens Bridge, Benton, Elsemere Junction, and Airport Terminal 2.
- However, unlike most triple-line and quad-line junctions, this station is not run by Network Rail or Transport For Stepford, being run by Stepford Express instead. This also applies to Elsemere Junction and Airport Terminal 2, which are stations operated by AirLink.
- Platform 1 used to have an old buffer, but it was replaced in V1.6. This is the same as Stepford Airport Parkway Siding.
- This station once had the logo of British Rail on the side of the elevated portion of the tracks prior to V1.8. It can still be found at Northshore and Westercoast as of V1.8, and can also be found on the roof of Stepford Airport Central since V1.10.
- This station has step-free access.
- Before V1.7, although this station served AirLink, it was not on the spawn list for AirLink, so passengers spawning here had to spawn from the Stepford Connect or Stepford Express spawn lists. This was fixed in the aforementioned update.
- As of V1.7, this station now has Stepford Express signage, signifying their ownership and management of the station.
- There are no trains that go to Airport Terminal 1 from here. Passengers would need to disembark at Stepford Airport Central and change trains to go to Airport Terminal 1.
- Before V1.8, every route that approached this station stopped here, but since Leighton City became the major station at Leighton after that version, this is not the case anymore.
- Before V1.8, although the 5 car variant of the Class 43 is able to go on R076 (Stepford Central <> Leighton Stepford Road, now Stepford Central <> Leighton City), due to the length of Platform 1, the driver needs to stop very close to the buffer or else they can't open the doors and complete the route. R076 has since then been extended to Leighton City.
- Although the station is called "Leighton Stepford Road", the decals outside the station entrance before V1.8 displayed "Stepford Road". Moreover, it was then possible to walk under the station.
- Managing Director Charlie_RBX previewed this station upgraded on 14 November 2021, evident of a slightly visible station sign.
- After the V1.8 revamp, all Stepford Connect and Stepford Express services terminating here previously now terminate at Leighton City instead.
- R043 (Leighton West <> Leighton City) is able to skip this station when spawning from Leighton Depot. It is the only Stepford Connect route that can skip this station.
- In V1.8, R081 (Stepford Central <> Llyn-by-the-Sea (super fast)) was changed to stop at Leighton City instead of this station, making it the only Stepford Express route that is able to skip this station.
- AirLink routes R056 (Stepford Airport Central <> Leighton Stepford Road) and R057 (Airport Terminal 3 <> Leighton Stepford Road) still terminate here as of V1.8, instead of terminating at Leighton City despite the latter station being the new main station in the Leighton area.
- After the station's overhaul in V1.8, the buffer at the end of Platform 1 did not despawn trains even if the driver crashed into it, allowing trains to crash and even go through the wall behind it.
- However, the train would still be despawned by other messages instead of the usual "Buffers don't like to be eaten.".
- This was fixed in a later update.
- This station, along with Leighton City, Leighton West, and Edgemead, are four terminating stations that are next to each other without any through stations in between.
- Between V1.6 and V1.7, neither any SCR operator, Transport for Stepford, nor Network Rail managed the station. The station was unbranded and very simple signage. This also applied to Elsemere Junction.
- In V1.10, trains now enter Platform 2 first as random platform allocation at through stations that allow skipping caused SPADs as Signallers do not know what platform the train is entering, therefore unable to set the signal to proceed before the train reaches the platform; and trains from Leighton City now prioritise Leighton Stepford Road Platform 4 if they come Platform 3 & 4, and Platform 5 if they come from Platform 5 & 6, this is to allow two trains to enter Leighton Stepford Road smoothly without a train unexpectedly entering another platform and crossing the junction, causing a SPAD.
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